Favorite Realt-whore Cliches It’s not a house it’s a home. Buy now or you’ll be priced out forever. Renting is just throwing your money away. You have to live somewhere. They’re not making any more of it. Real estate never goes down. You’re just kidding yourself if you’re waiting for prices to fall. Never a better time to buy! I think you have a deep-seated fear of commitment. Never try to time... [more]
Favorite Realt-whore Cliches
It’s not a house it’s a home.
Buy now or you’ll be priced out forever.
Renting is just throwing your money away.
You have to live somewhere.
They’re not making any more of it.
Real estate never goes down.
You’re just kidding yourself if you’re waiting for prices to fall.
Never a better time to buy!
I think you have a deep-seated fear of commitment.
Never try to time the market (when it’s falling).
It’s different this time.
_(insert location)_ is so desirable, people will want to live here no matter how expensive it gets.
Boomers/immigrants/rich people will keep prices permanently high.
Prices have achieved a permanently high plateau/new paradigm/soft landing.
_(insert location)_ is land-locked.
If you’re waiting for the perfect time to buy, you’ll be waiting forever.
You can’t lose in real estate –it’s a no-brainer.
Real estate’s seasonal; after _(insert holiday)_ things will return to normal.
The last housing drop was caused by _(insert unique, non-repeatable event: 9-11, collapse of Soviet Union, earthquake, hurricane, etc.)_; it’ll NEVER happen again.
STOP LOW-BALLING! STOP!! I REALLY MEAN IT!!!
Realt-whore quotes I’d like to see:
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Why, yes, I do drive looking through my rear-view mirror. Why do you ask?
Prices are not falling; they’re just appreciating in a different direction.
It’s perfectly normal for inventory to quintuple this time of year.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
These are not the droids you’re looking for, move along.
Didn’t I tell you NOT to low-ball?! STOP IT ALREADY!!!
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Response by positivecarry
about 17 years ago
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Hilarious. My clients said the same thing about oil. Herd mentality.
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Response by w67thstreet
about 17 years ago
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Admiral... I must kindly point you to the thread "Borkers thread"... we tried a more tasteful Borkers porn title... like "Never Goes Down." "I'll do that for 6%" etc... maybe I can piggyback on your thread.
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Response by nyc10022
about 17 years ago
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"Prices are not falling; they’re just appreciating in a different direction."
ROTFL
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Response by Admiral
about 17 years ago
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w67th - sorry, i didn't see it. Yes of course you can piggyback on my thread. There certainly can never be enough threads bashing inept and greedy realt-whores.
Indeed, if things get as worse as they just might, there may even be a thread entitled "Realtors - how do you like yours cooked".
No, i'm not joking! This azz-clowns and their evil brethren, the mortgage brokers, have nearly destroyed the wealthiest system in the 10,000 years that homo sapiens have been living in organized societies. All because of sloth and greed, and a desire to avoid turning up at 9AM in an office like the rest of them. As Baghdad Bob once said, "Allah will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis".
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Response by w67thstreet
about 17 years ago
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Well... here... "I won't even put in a bid, unless its above ask" yes I actually was told that at the height.... hope the cat food tastes good.
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Response by nyc10022
about 17 years ago
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forgot one... this was said to me literally THREE DAYS before the market panic in October... in response to "didn't you hear about the global recession"....
"they said that every year"
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Response by nyc10022
about 17 years ago
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"Manhattan is different"
(yes, worse apparently)
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Response by nyc10022
about 17 years ago
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"Everyone who works on wall street has piles of cash, so they won't be affected"
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Response by Admiral
about 17 years ago
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Once, a realtor told me he needed me to fill out a form for a beach house I was selling. It must have been a VERY important form, b/c every day he called me saying "DID YOU SEND THE FORM BACK?!?"(probably had something to do w/ his fee, LOL).
After about a week of this, I said "I haven't even received it in the mail yet...when did you mail it?"
"Today".
No effing joke.
I only have about a thousand more stories like this, would you like to hear them?
People ask me "Admiral, why do you despise realtors so much? Did one screw you?" And the honest answer is no, at least, not in any big way. Several tried, to be sure ("I always get a 7% fee"). But there attempts were so obvious, so transparent, i easily swatted them down with little effort.
So why do I hate them? Why do i think the entire profession should be neutered, and the practice made illegal, so no other realtors ever manifest themselves on god's earth?
I pondered this, and finally it dawned on me: I respect hard work, and I respect intelligence. Realtors, on the whole, are neither. Yes, I realize you're uncle Louie went to Harvard before becoming a realtor, but then he's quite the exception, isn't he? Most aren't terribly bright, they don't like to work hard, and they have a tendency towards prevarication. AND THIS OCCURS NOT IN TWO OUT OF TEN REALTORS, BUT IN NINE OUT OF TEN!
Perhaps the current market is a great plague sent from on high to eliminate this illegitimate profession, in much the same way "slave trader" is banished to the history books.
Wouldn't that be wonderful? Perhaps, some day, the only "realtors" you'll see will be in history books! These losers will all have to get jobs, where they'll be made to turn up at 8:30, and actually do some work, and actually tell something close to the truth!
And then, every day will be a day to PAR-TAAAAAAAAAAY!
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Response by Admiral
about 17 years ago
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Sorry for the typos, your vs you're etc. I wrote too fast and Streeteasy needs a "preview" or an "edit" button.
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Response by stevejhx
about 17 years ago
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"Never try to time the market (when it’s falling)."
LMAO.
What about this: "We have ten bidders and we're going to have an open outcry auction this Thursday. Would you like to participate?"
Yup. When it's a foreclosure!
Where's spunky? JuiceMan? vverain? evillager? malraux? All my fans of yore?
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Response by nyc10022
about 17 years ago
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I have found in my experience that realtor is the fallback position when you didn't go to college, don't have any specific skills, don't have anything better to do. Anyone with a decent degree found something better.
There is probably a reason that it is the #1 employment source for bored housewives...
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Response by nyc10022
about 17 years ago
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here is a whole piece the realtors put together... CHOCK FULL OF QUOTES....
Now is the time to buy.
Buy now or be priced out forever.
Catch that falling knife.
etc etc etc........................
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Response by 10105
about 17 years ago
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My vote for dumbest broker of the year (as I think she actually believes this crap)... Article titled "The Sky is Not Falling, People!" on Sept. 11, 2008 by Christine Toes. Too many to list.
absolutely... there is always that one peak of bubble stupid article/piece/company/example that comes out a year into every crash.
I think Miss Toes will becomg that legend.
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Response by KeithBurkhardt
about 17 years ago
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Admiral are we just a little bit bitter this holiday season?...lol.
"Wouldn't that be wonderful? Perhaps, some day, the only "realtors" you'll see will be in history books! These losers will all have to get jobs, where they'll be made to turn up at 8:30, and actually do some work, and actually tell something close to the truth!"
"This azz-clowns and their evil brethren, the mortgage brokers, have nearly destroyed the wealthiest system in the 10,000 years that homo sapiens have been living in organized societies. All because of sloth and greed, and a desire to avoid turning up at 9AM in an office like the rest of them."
Real Estate brokers did all this? Is this what you got out of your Ivy league education?
Admiral get back on the meds, going cold turkey isn't working.
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Response by nyc10022
about 17 years ago
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> Real Estate brokers did all this?
Couldn't have happened without 'em.
> Is this what you got out of your Ivy league education?
Yes.
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Response by KeithBurkhardt
about 17 years ago
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nyc10022: I just returned from almost 4 weeks in Costa Rica, great wedding, surf and golf. So not even your bitter discourse and lack of intelligence could bring me down. Learn to love yourself and you will find the hate you feel towards others melts away. Then you will be able to carry on conversations even in the cyber world where the lack of personal contact and anonymity cause one to express themselves in a less than dignified manner. Pura Vida.
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Response by w67thstreet
about 17 years ago
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burk... learn to love yourself,, just don't "LOVE" yourself too much :)
The last time I checked, Nobel doesn't give out prizes for RE Borkers... you know they give it to people who actually contribute to society like the maid who cleaned your hotel in CR... or the airplane pilot who flew you back and forth (no awards but contribute to society). I hate RE Brokers b/c of my experience with them and their inability to contribute to even a RE Deal.... who the hell thought 6% sounds good to me?
Man is making progress in every facet of our lives.... yet buying RE in NYC is still 6% and they themselves as a "professional" group have done nothing to improve market efficiencies... what if all doctors said let's just use leeches and charge 6%... no one innovate...
Hilarious. My clients said the same thing about oil. Herd mentality.
Admiral... I must kindly point you to the thread "Borkers thread"... we tried a more tasteful Borkers porn title... like "Never Goes Down." "I'll do that for 6%" etc... maybe I can piggyback on your thread.
"Prices are not falling; they’re just appreciating in a different direction."
ROTFL
w67th - sorry, i didn't see it. Yes of course you can piggyback on my thread. There certainly can never be enough threads bashing inept and greedy realt-whores.
Indeed, if things get as worse as they just might, there may even be a thread entitled "Realtors - how do you like yours cooked".
No, i'm not joking! This azz-clowns and their evil brethren, the mortgage brokers, have nearly destroyed the wealthiest system in the 10,000 years that homo sapiens have been living in organized societies. All because of sloth and greed, and a desire to avoid turning up at 9AM in an office like the rest of them. As Baghdad Bob once said, "Allah will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis".
Well... here... "I won't even put in a bid, unless its above ask" yes I actually was told that at the height.... hope the cat food tastes good.
forgot one... this was said to me literally THREE DAYS before the market panic in October... in response to "didn't you hear about the global recession"....
"they said that every year"
"Manhattan is different"
(yes, worse apparently)
"Everyone who works on wall street has piles of cash, so they won't be affected"
Once, a realtor told me he needed me to fill out a form for a beach house I was selling. It must have been a VERY important form, b/c every day he called me saying "DID YOU SEND THE FORM BACK?!?"(probably had something to do w/ his fee, LOL).
After about a week of this, I said "I haven't even received it in the mail yet...when did you mail it?"
"Today".
No effing joke.
I only have about a thousand more stories like this, would you like to hear them?
People ask me "Admiral, why do you despise realtors so much? Did one screw you?" And the honest answer is no, at least, not in any big way. Several tried, to be sure ("I always get a 7% fee"). But there attempts were so obvious, so transparent, i easily swatted them down with little effort.
So why do I hate them? Why do i think the entire profession should be neutered, and the practice made illegal, so no other realtors ever manifest themselves on god's earth?
I pondered this, and finally it dawned on me: I respect hard work, and I respect intelligence. Realtors, on the whole, are neither. Yes, I realize you're uncle Louie went to Harvard before becoming a realtor, but then he's quite the exception, isn't he? Most aren't terribly bright, they don't like to work hard, and they have a tendency towards prevarication. AND THIS OCCURS NOT IN TWO OUT OF TEN REALTORS, BUT IN NINE OUT OF TEN!
Perhaps the current market is a great plague sent from on high to eliminate this illegitimate profession, in much the same way "slave trader" is banished to the history books.
Wouldn't that be wonderful? Perhaps, some day, the only "realtors" you'll see will be in history books! These losers will all have to get jobs, where they'll be made to turn up at 8:30, and actually do some work, and actually tell something close to the truth!
And then, every day will be a day to PAR-TAAAAAAAAAAY!
Sorry for the typos, your vs you're etc. I wrote too fast and Streeteasy needs a "preview" or an "edit" button.
"Never try to time the market (when it’s falling)."
LMAO.
What about this: "We have ten bidders and we're going to have an open outcry auction this Thursday. Would you like to participate?"
Yup. When it's a foreclosure!
Where's spunky? JuiceMan? vverain? evillager? malraux? All my fans of yore?
I have found in my experience that realtor is the fallback position when you didn't go to college, don't have any specific skills, don't have anything better to do. Anyone with a decent degree found something better.
There is probably a reason that it is the #1 employment source for bored housewives...
here is a whole piece the realtors put together... CHOCK FULL OF QUOTES....
its hillarious
http://lawrenceyunwatch.blogspot.com/2008/07/glenn-beck-mocks-yun-lereah.html
"hope the cat food tastes good."
heeheeheehee...........mrrrow....tastes like tuna
Now is the time to buy.
Buy now or be priced out forever.
Catch that falling knife.
etc etc etc........................
My vote for dumbest broker of the year (as I think she actually believes this crap)... Article titled "The Sky is Not Falling, People!" on Sept. 11, 2008 by Christine Toes. Too many to list.
See http://www.urbandigs.com/2008/09/manhattan_real_estate_the_sky.html
absolutely... there is always that one peak of bubble stupid article/piece/company/example that comes out a year into every crash.
I think Miss Toes will becomg that legend.
Admiral are we just a little bit bitter this holiday season?...lol.
"Wouldn't that be wonderful? Perhaps, some day, the only "realtors" you'll see will be in history books! These losers will all have to get jobs, where they'll be made to turn up at 8:30, and actually do some work, and actually tell something close to the truth!"
"This azz-clowns and their evil brethren, the mortgage brokers, have nearly destroyed the wealthiest system in the 10,000 years that homo sapiens have been living in organized societies. All because of sloth and greed, and a desire to avoid turning up at 9AM in an office like the rest of them."
Real Estate brokers did all this? Is this what you got out of your Ivy league education?
Admiral get back on the meds, going cold turkey isn't working.
> Real Estate brokers did all this?
Couldn't have happened without 'em.
> Is this what you got out of your Ivy league education?
Yes.
nyc10022: I just returned from almost 4 weeks in Costa Rica, great wedding, surf and golf. So not even your bitter discourse and lack of intelligence could bring me down. Learn to love yourself and you will find the hate you feel towards others melts away. Then you will be able to carry on conversations even in the cyber world where the lack of personal contact and anonymity cause one to express themselves in a less than dignified manner. Pura Vida.
burk... learn to love yourself,, just don't "LOVE" yourself too much :)
The last time I checked, Nobel doesn't give out prizes for RE Borkers... you know they give it to people who actually contribute to society like the maid who cleaned your hotel in CR... or the airplane pilot who flew you back and forth (no awards but contribute to society). I hate RE Brokers b/c of my experience with them and their inability to contribute to even a RE Deal.... who the hell thought 6% sounds good to me?
Man is making progress in every facet of our lives.... yet buying RE in NYC is still 6% and they themselves as a "professional" group have done nothing to improve market efficiencies... what if all doctors said let's just use leeches and charge 6%... no one innovate...